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Rainier Beach Arts & Culture Roundtable #2
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Paul E Nelson Blog
Cascadia Day Poetry Explosion May 18 7pm
May 18 is Cascadia Day, because it is the anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens.Bioregional journalist Andrew...
Interview with Deborah Poe on her Submission to Winter in America (Still
How does one make literary art about this time in history, that avoids rhetoric and facile political positioning in...
Theodore Roethke and the Birth of Cascadian Poetry
I'm honored to be giving a talk/reading on the subject of: Theodore Roethke and the Birth of Cascadian Poetry on May...
Paul E. Nelson, Clyfford Still Museum Institute Residential Fellowship Program
04.20.26 for immediate release The Clyfford Still Museum Institute Residential Fellowship Program has announced its...
Interview with Aldon Lynn Nielsen on Gil Scott-Heron
I was a sophomore at Wright Junior College in Chicago in 1981, quite determined to be a professional broadcaster,...
Rainier Beach Arts Roundtable & Mapes Creek
It's kind of a joke in the bioregional community that bioregionalists are people who fly all over the world to tell...
Clyfford Still Museum 2026 Institute Residential Fellowship
Your humble narrator was awarded a Residential Fellowship for July 2026 at the Clyfford Still Museum. Here was my...
Lorin Medley Interview
Our latest Cascadian Prophets podcast interview is now up. Lorin Medley is a poet from Comox, B.C. Her first chapbook...
We are Axolotls: Somos Ajolotes Anthology
I'm delighted to have work in a new bilingual anthology! From the Carbonation Press website: We are Axolotls: Somos...
Gallery 100 Panel Discussion The Beauty Shop
I have the good fortune of being a moderator at Gallery 110 this Saturday from 4 to 6. 110 3rd Avenue S, Seattle....
Theodore Roethke, 1st Cascadia Poet
I had the good fortune to interview Bill Barillas on The North American Sequence of Theodore Roethke. Sam Hamill told...